Help for Heroes - St Cyrus

1 October 2011 and the day of the Help for Heroes meet to raise a few quid for the charity.

Up early doors for the drive p which was done in (at times) torrential rain. Not looking good I thought and it still wasn't any better when I arrived at the meeting place. So out with the kettle for a brew and thankfully by the time I'd finished the rain had almost died.

My concerns of a poor turnout, due to the weather and the Scotland v England game at the Rugby World Cup (least said the better), were thankfully unfounded as 23 folk turned up and paid their dues to fish.  And with that half the anglers jumped into the tractor and trailer that Paul had kindly brought along to give a lift to the far end of the beach.

The other half of us were to be fishing at the South end of the beach. By the time we walked to our spot at the south and set up the rain had stopped altogether and the cloud lifting a bit.

We could see the tractor offloading at the North end of the beach and everyone setting up there at the same time.

I spent the day fishing with Malky and his son Paul having a good laugh all day. Starting off reasonably even but with Paul then firstly then Malky easing away from me in the catching stakes. Best fish for me was a nice 26cm Dab.

Fishing was reasonably steady for all with Flounders to 36cm, Dabs to 30cm an a lovely 40cm Turbot and over 200 fish in total to the 23 anglers.

With everyone putting in to fish the meet and then a small raffle afterwards everyone's generosity raised £259.50 for the Shoreangler Fish for Heroes Team.

Brilliant.